New Mexico Dental Journal

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President’s Message

Michael Law, DDS

olleagues, I hope everyone had a great summer, and is doing well. As you have

probably noticed, this issue and the previous issue of the

New Mexico Dental

Association Journal

have quite a bit of information contained within on membership.

The next few journals will continue to contain more and more information on being a

member of the New Mexico Dental Association and how to encourage our colleagues who

are not members to become involved in organized dentistry.

The best way we can continue to practice the way we have been practicing is by being able

to come together as one voice. The only way to do that is to increase the membership in

the New Mexico Dental Association, but in order to do this, I need your help. As some

of you may know, our membership market share has dropped over the last couple of years.

This is a trend that is not only being seen in our state, but other states throughout the

country. Over the next couple of months, we will be rolling out a few new recruitment

programs to help those dentists in our state who are not members see the value of being

involved in our state’s dental association. One program that will be rolled out is our 1-on-1

membership recruitment program. This will involve participation from all of our members.

It will be as easy as offering to take a fellow dentist to lunch, or even simply going to their

office and talking to them about the New Mexico Dental Association and the benefits of

being involved.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who attended this year’s annual session in Albu-

querque. I hope that you saw the value in attending and that you and your staff attend

again this next year. I encourage you to invite your colleagues and encourage them to attend

along with their staff. We have an amazing line up of speakers for this next year, the largest

collection of renowned speakers I have ever seen at our convention. We want to continue

to bring renowned speakers to our convention and see it continue to grow. So go out into

your community and convince your fellow dentists to attend our amazing convention. The

theme this year is “Denim & Diamonds Dentistry”; I feel it explains dentistry in our state,

being that we are a laid back people, but we still expect and perform the best quality treat-

ments for our patients.

As always, if you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Michael Law, DDS

NMDA President 2015–2016

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